"Observes the activities of students and faculty at the UCLA Institute of Ethnomusicology, where a basis for international understanding is sought through cross-cultural studies in music and dance. Shows four of the Institute's 15 performance study groups with students and faculty playing music of Java, Bali, Thailand and Africa on authentic native instruments. The Institute is unique in offering such practical training in the performance of non-Western music. Also shows examples from the Institute's collection of over 1,000 instruments, and illustrates its research activities, some of which involve the use of sophisticated electronic measuring equipment. Concludes with highlights of an annual spring festival, in which students demonstrate their mastery of international musicianship"--Accompanying documentation. The film includes UCLA Ethnomusicology faculty and students performing in a variety of ensembles, and Michael Moore, a staff member, working on the Seeger melograph in the Ethnomusicology Lab. The following performance ensembles are included: Music of Java; Music of Bali, with professors Max Harrell and Jozef Pacholczyk playing Indonesian instruments; Music of Thailand, with Professor David Morton (ensemble director) performing ranat ek and students performing on various Thai instruments, Flora Baker, vocalist; Music and Dance of Ghana Ensemble, Kwasi Badu (ensemble director) performing the Asante atumpan drum and students Lynn Carpenter, Jacqueline Cogdell, Philip Harland (sitting and playing apentema drum), Jacquelin Peters (sitting on right playing apentema drum) and Elizabeth Tatar; Los Condores, Music of the Andes Student Group, with Dale Olsen (group leader) playing flute, Linda O'Brien playing guitar, and others; Music and Dance of the Balkans with Jordan Trenev (band director) playing tupan and trumpet, Miriam Cutler playing clarinet, Miamon Miller playing violin, and Don Stilo, vocalist, with dancers including Roo Lester, Anthony Ivancich and Sam Jones.

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